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Bhagavatapurana 8.22.20

Bhāgavatapurāṇa 8.22.20

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8.22.20

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20. Vindhyavali said:—This Universe (the three-fold) is produced by Thee for Thy own sport, O Lord; others by virtue of their crooked understanding might claim it as their property; to Thee the all-powerful Lord that makes, protects and destroys this, what could those who are of poor sense and are by Thee deprived even of the talk that they are free agents, shamelessly proceed to offer? (Those that think, as Bali now did in offering his head, that they have something of their own are quite mistaken, since everything is thine own and is given by Thee to others).

S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam

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